It's an '85 Advantage Sport Cruiser. It was built out of the Rogers Bonneville Classic mold. It's pretty dang unique. Rogers didn't make many and so far I've only seen one other like it.

I bought it a couple years ago. I ran it for a summer then had the pump rebuilt to be sure it was in good shape. I also added an inducer.

Everything was good until I blew the motor up a few weeks ago. I bought Mike Dewey's 496 and he and I installed it in the boat. It still needs to be plumbed and wired. I need to relocate the batteries due to running headers instead of logs. To move the batteries I needed to move the diverter pump. I made a bracket for that which uses existing holes. Next up is exhaust hole covers.

I guess this is a PSA. When I bought the boat I got underneath to check out the pump hardware and saw that ALL four loader bolts were loose. Since it's already 5/16" hardware I got new bolts and put nylocks on the two back loader bolts. The front two are covered by the oil pan.

Check out your loaders! If it were to come loose it could sank or flipped the boat.

Time for some updates! Yesterday I took the boat out for a shake down run and couldn't be happier. For the motor swap I cleaned up the wiring which was a bit of a mess, redid all the plumbing in stainless braided line with AN fittings, relocated the batteries, mounted an electric fuel pump, relocated the diverter pump, and plugged the exhaust holes. I spent way too much time on the diverter bracket, exhaust hole covers, and fuel pump mount, but I'm happy with how they turned out.

I still havenít GPSíd it. Iím really interested in one of the GPS cameras that Garmin makes. It tracks all your info while recording video. It would be great to put numbers to the seat of the pants feel.

Iím really happy with how the boat ran this summer. Not a single issue and the new motor really woke the boat up.